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Lubar Center for Entrepreneurship will bring together, enhance and expand UWM’s strong array of entrepreneurial programs, classes and activities for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as start-up and growing companies throughout the region.

David Mulroy, professor emeritus of classics at UWM, recently completed a translation of the Greek tragic trilogy known as the Theban plays, about Oedipus Rex and his family. He discusses why these plays still fascinate readers and audiences today.

Javier Tapia has been working with the United States and Mexican governments, as well as local nonprofit organizations, to bring a Mexican consulate to Milwaukee. The consulate will provide services to the growing Hispanic community in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee’s Nepalese community followed news about the April 25 earthquake in Nepal on social media, raising $60,000. A UWM professor from Nepal was scheduled to deliver that money to Nepal’s prime minister.

UWM alumnus and graphic designer Steve Kodis wants Milwaukee to adopt a redesigned city flag. The current flag is rated as one of the country’s worst by flag experts and designers. A new flag, he says, has great potential for good.

When the Rolling Stones wanted a choir to sing with them during Tuesday’s performance at Summerfest, the legendary rockers found what they needed at UWM. Two dozen members of the school’s elite choral group joined them on stage at the world’s largest music festival.

Timothy L. Smunt will rejoin the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty this summer after serving six years as dean of UWM’s Lubar School of Business. Smunt led the school during a period of growth in its programming and reputation, and oversaw its successful reaccreditation.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Alex Vagelatos, (414) 229-4800, vagelato@uwm.edu, and Michael Kirchner, (414) 229-7211, kirchne3@uwm.edu. Halli Stewart, a Racine native who served for five years as a combat medic in the U.S. Army after joining the reserves at age 17, is the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Tillman Scholar for 2015. A graduate student in administrative leadership […]

The strengths and needs of Milwaukee’s 50 and older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community will be detailed in a new study to be released at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center.

MILWAUKEE – Magda Peck, founding dean of the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, is leaving her position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee effective July 1, 2015. Since taking the helm in March 2012, Peck has helped transform the UWM Zilber School of Public Health from a young start-up into a well-established and respected […]

MILWAUKEE – Toolmaker Snap-on Inc. is introducing a new product – an industrial wrench designed to reduce shoulder injuries – in a ceremony to be held at the company’s Kenosha headquarters on Wednesday, June 10. Created by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the tool’s ergonomic features were inspired by the need to reduce the […]

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Brian Thompson – UWM Research Foundation (414) 906-4653, briant@uwm.edu Maureen Mack – Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 955-4744, (414) 750-5266 MILWAUKEE – The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) will hold a “quick pitch” event May 28 to bring together academic researchers and business leaders. The […]

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Michelle Johnson, (414) 229-7490, media-services@uwm.edu; or Alex Vagelatos, (414) 229-4800, vagelato@uwm.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MILWAUKEE _ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s 2105 Spring Commencement ceremonies will be at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 17, at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, 400 W. Kilbourn Ave. Invitations to participate in the graduation ceremonies have been sent to […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing has launched a partnership to train fire department paramedics in community-based health care. The partnership, announced at an April 29 press conference, also involves the Milwaukee Fire Department, Milwaukee County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the Medical College of Wisconsin.